http://rondomingue.com Ron Domingue, illustrator and designer. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:34:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption class="small"id="attachment_620" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards"][/caption] I don't support many design galas but when people the likes of Joshua Davis and Tina Roth Eisenberg are judging it's kind of hard not to take notice. http://rondomingue.com/2008/08/11/adobe-design-achievement-awards-2008/ An Exhibit opening August 5, 2008 in Osaka, Japan featuring the work of legendary interactive designer and architect Yugo Nakamura. There is no question I worship at the altar of Nakamura's work with resounding pride. I only wish I lived in Japan to view it in person. http://rondomingue.com/2008/08/06/yugo_nakamura/ Pretty straightforward survey and actually pretty useful in analyzing your career for those of us in the field of web design and development. I gained a wealth of information from the results of the 2007 survey so it's a no-brainer to participate—literally takes five minutes. http://rondomingue.com/2008/08/03/a-list-apart-survey-2008/ A new documentary film by Gary Hustwit, the director of Helvetica, to be released in 2009. The subject will be industrial design with interviews from Dieter Rams (Braun) and Jonathan Ives (Apple). [caption id=caption="Objectified"][/caption] It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s ... http://rondomingue.com/2008/07/31/objectified/ WordPress is now available as an iPhone application. At first glance it looks to be fairly solid. You are able to edit multiple posts, up to 50 of the last recent posts, and add photos from the iPhone camera library. However photos are added to the bottom of the post. ... http://rondomingue.com/2008/07/30/wordpress-for-the-iphone/ I don't often take myself seriously and neither do I take many of my blog post. I'm interested and obliged when I see posts that are popular and forbid even read. That's why I was delighted to read Jack Shedd's post on blogging he actually echoes much of my same ... http://rondomingue.com/2008/07/24/blogging/ Just discovered Dave Gibbons poster of the Watchmen for last year's San Diego Comic-Con. Maybe there will be an update for this year's version at the 2008 Con. When I first read the issues in 1986 I had no clue of how really good Dave Gibbons was as an artist. His ... http://rondomingue.com/2008/07/22/watchmen_poster/ Garret Dimon writes an informed review of the usabilty testing application Silverback by ClearLeft. There are neat features within the application such as recording mouse clicks, recording audio through iSight, special keypresses, etc., looks to be a very promising. Garret Dimon: Silverback will be a great addition to ... http://rondomingue.com/2008/07/21/silverback/ I'm still a bit of a skeptic about the film. I always felt that it should have been an HBO mini-series to compliment the density of the graphic novel (imagine a 12-disc set). It's also unfortunate Alan Moore wasn't more involved, however it is good to see Dave Gibbons on ... http://rondomingue.com/2008/07/17/watchmen_trailer/ All the reason Flash is better than AJAX and why the iPhone could still benefit immensely from its deployment. Don't get me wrong there is plenty of reasons that Flash shouldn't be as ubiquitous as it is because for every cool project there are about a hundred crap ones—we are ... http://rondomingue.com/2008/07/16/radiohead_data/ I'm a comic art fan and a Tori Amos fan so it's not surprising I'm eagerly awaiting Comic Book Tattoo, a 480 page hardcover graphic novel anthology visualizing the themes and ideas behind Tori Amos's music. To be released in 3 versions, the signed limited edition hardcover will be released ... http://rondomingue.com/2008/07/14/comic_book_tattoo/ Ok it's that time of year again. I actually told myself it would be a while before I would go to another San Diego Comic-Con but I just couldn't help it this year. Actually I have a friend that lives near San Diego so it wasn't a hard decision. Having ... http://rondomingue.com/2008/07/11/san-diego-comic-con-2008/